Actuall I like to wipe out every other civ, but this is a huge task and maybe impossible if you are playing on Apolyton ultra gigantic map with 16 players. Much space for everyone, you have to spend a lot of ressources for your military and of course you have to spend a lot of time. In Apolyton Pack Dale also raised the costs for advances and cut off the game 100 years. So that I wasn't able to research fast enough to get all the advances. As I triedend of time victory I lost altough I was number one on the power graph. Maybe I the reason why I lost was that my military wasn't strong enough. A peace victory is left, but that is easy to achieve if you are the most powerful civ and you didn't declared war to often in the last turns you can ask your opponents if they like to sign a pact with and if they don't want to sign a peace treaty just threat with war and they will accept if you was not too bad to them.
-Martin
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I like the science victory, but the thing is ever since I got CTP2, I've never actually finished a game, I have seen the videos though. The reason I havent finished a game is that there's always a new version of medmod 2, or something new I'd like to add, and this makes me restart my game.
DIplomatic Victory is just to easy!
You just need to get 40% of land kill all big opponents & make peace wich others, after that just force allinaces by threatening. Soon after I win.
Of course after that I load a game back and go for Science Victory.